Overview

The Business Value of SolidFire All-Flash Array Storage Systems

ll-flash arrays (AFAs) are transforming enterprise storage not only with their performance but also with their ability to enable both IT infrastructure and business transformation.

With their ability to consistently deliver sub-millisecond response times in the face of varying workloads and handle hundreds of thousands to millions of input/output operations per second (IOPS), AFAs are much better suited to the workloads of today than legacy hard disk drive (HDD)–based storage infrastructure. Often in the IT industry, additional performance is assumed to come with additional cost, but against performanceintensive primary storage workloads, AFAs are offering significantly better business value than enterprise arrays that use only HDDs.

IDC interviewed seven organizations using SolidFire AFA storage systems to support their performancedependent business operations.